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Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness argues that despite the worries of explanatory pessimists consciousness can be fully explained in “easy” scientific terms. The widespread intuition that consciousness poses a hard problem is plausibly based on how consciousness appears to us in first-person access. The book offers a debunking argument to undercut the justificatory link between the first-person appearances and our hard problem intuitions. The key step in the debunking argument involves the development and defense of an empirical model of first-person access: Automated Compression Theory (ACT). ACT holds that first-person access to consciousness is accomplished by automated accessing of compressed sensory information. Because of the distorting nature of this compressed access it seems to subjects that consciousness possesses “exceptional” properties—properties leading to the hard problem—even though no such properties are present. If there are no exceptional properties to explain then an explanation in easy terms can fully account for conscious experience. The book presents a range of empirical evidence for ACT and concludes that the burden of proof is now on the pessimists to show why we shouldn’t be optimistic about explaining consciousness.

GBP 130.00
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The European Union s Evolving External Engagement Towards New Sectoral Diplomacies?

The European Union s Evolving External Engagement Towards New Sectoral Diplomacies?

In recent decades the external action of the European Union (EU) has been undergoing considerable change. An expansion of the EU’s external policy portfolio can be observed in many areas as previous policies for internal purposes – such as competition energy the environment justice and home affairs or monetary governance but also gender science culture or higher education – have developed external dimensions. This book addresses the EU’s potential to become a more joined-up global actor in its external engagement. It uses a single and innovative analytical framework to examine three clusters of policies: EU internal sectoral and cross-cutting policies with long-standing external engagement those which have been undergoing considerable change and originally internal policies whose external dimensions are comparatively more recent. It identifies key explanatory factors for the emergence of (certain forms of) EU external engagement and identifies patterns of the evolving relations between EU internal and external sectoral policies. As such the book examines and assesses exciting new empirical and theoretical research avenues into European integration studies and offers insights into the extent to which the EU may be considered a more joined-up global actor developing sectoral diplomacies. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students as well as practitioners in the fields of European Union politics European Union foreign policy European Politics diplomacy studies and more broadly law and international relations. | The European Union�s Evolving External Engagement Towards New Sectoral Diplomacies?

GBP 38.99
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European External Action The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya

European External Action The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya

European External Action provides a critical assessment of the practice of EU diplomacy in a key site of Africa-European relations and the global development industry - the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. It analyses how the EU positions itself through its newly established diplomatic corps the European External Action Service (EEAS) and how it is perceived as a collective geopolitical actor by its external cooperation partners. Going beyond existing studies on EU policy making in Brussels and African-European relations more generally this book explores in a novel way the conduct of external relations and perceptions of the EU - abroad. Based on institutional ethnography within the EU Delegation in Nairobi and research affiliation with the University of Nairobi as well as interviews with leading individuals of Kenyan-European interaction it analyses the practices processes and perceptions through which EU diplomacy is enacted and realised in a strategic node of global North-South relations. In light of the EU’s claim as a key partner for developing countries and its ambition to be a major player in global politics European External Action thereby speaks not only to wider debates on the EU’s role as a global and development actor but also provides new insights in the internal dynamics and the making of external agency in and through EU diplomacy. | European External Action The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya

GBP 46.99
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How To Be Insightful Unlocking the Superpower that drives Innovation

How To Be Insightful Unlocking the Superpower that drives Innovation

How do we advance? As individuals families and businesses? As societies nations and a species? In a world where it’s said there is nothing new under the sun we humans are remarkably resourceful at creating new things. The key to innovation is understanding but not just by using facts data and casual observations. Progress demands the profound and useful understanding of a person or a thing a situation or an issue. And profound and useful understanding that truly effects change is that most elusive of phenomena: insight. How To Be Insightful provides a novel and deeply practical framework that anyone can use to generate more powerful and impactful insights from the increasing volumes of data we all face every day whatever we do. The framework – the STEP Prism of Insight – has been developed through decades of both practice and training and the book includes many exercises designed to help strengthen and develop readers’ insight muscles. The book explains the history psychology and neuroscience of insight and includes snapshots of insight from international experts in many different fields – psychology and neuroscience music and acting forensic science and market research. | How To Be Insightful Unlocking the Superpower that drives Innovation

GBP 31.99
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The EU’s External Governance of Migration Perspectives of Justice

The EU’s External Governance of Migration Perspectives of Justice

This book examines migration as a key element of the European Union's (EU’s) foreign policy and thus a critical domain for understanding and evaluating EU external action. It documents explains and assesses the implementation of EU migration policies especially after the crisis of 2015 providing a much-needed overall evaluation and comparison in different geographic contexts. Applying a composite approach to global political justice it affords a normative assessment of EU’s action and shows the tensions between the justice claims of the many actors involved in the EU migration system of governance. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and policymakers in European Union external/foreign policy migration and refugee studies global justice ethics and more broadly to European studies/politics and international relations. | The EU’s External Governance of Migration Perspectives of Justice

GBP 38.99
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners Foundations Strategies and Resources

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners Foundations Strategies and Resources

This critical resource provides foundational information and practical strategies for d/Deaf or hard of hearing (d/Dhh) multilingual learners. These learners come from backgrounds where their home languages differ from the dominant spoken or sign languages of the culture. This book is a one-stop resource for professionals interventionists and families helping them to effectively support the diverse needs of d/Dhh multilingual learners by covering topics such as family engagement assessment literacy multiple disabilities transition planning and more. The book provides vignettes of learners from 25 countries discussion questions and family-centered infographic briefs that synthesize each chapter. Deaf and Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners is a groundbreaking step towards better supporting the many languages and cultures d/Dhh students experience in their lifetimes through strength-based and linguistically responsive approaches. | Deaf and Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners Foundations Strategies and Resources

GBP 38.99
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners With Disabilities Foundations Strategies and Resources

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners With Disabilities Foundations Strategies and Resources

This volume offers foundational information and research-based strategies for meeting the needs of deaf and hard of hearing learners with disabilities. The disabilities covered in this volume include developmental delays autism spectrum disorder intellectual and learning disabilities deafblindness emotional and behavioral disorders attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a variety of high incidence syndromes. Contributors examine the literature within each disability category share best practices and consider demographics/characteristics intervention/identification placement communication/language psychosocial issues assistive technologies/accommodations assessments and transition/post-secondary outcomes. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and concludes with discussion questions and a resource list. Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners with Disabilities is an essential book for courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and in workshops and webinars for in-service teachers professionals and families. | Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners With Disabilities Foundations Strategies and Resources

GBP 38.99
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Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe the major Western powers had become equally obsessed with value promotion that would ensure a global triumph for the values of the West touted as “universal values. ” The Russian play for spheres of interest was clearly defined and demarcated the Western play for values was by definition without limits. Hence there could be no common ground no constructive communication and no common understanding. While Russia convinced itself that it would be successful in forcing the West to accept its claims for a new security order based on hard power Western governments deluded themselves into believing that value promotion would transform Russia into a liberal democracy and a rules-based market economy. Examining the full situation exploring political military economic and business spheres the book provides a deep analysis of how the present confrontation has come about. | Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

GBP 34.99
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Southeast Asia And The Enemy Beyond Asean Perceptions Of External Threats

Southeast Asia And The Enemy Beyond Asean Perceptions Of External Threats

This book explores elite perceptions of the external threats facing the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) drawing on Dr. Tilman's interviews with senior political military and intellectual leaders in Indonesia Malaysia the Philippines Singapore and Thailand. He supplements his interviews with an examination of their writings speeches and other public statements which he examines in the context of the history geography culture and governmental structures of each country. He addresses the fundamental questions of the extent to which these perceptions differ and why. His focus throughout is on subjective reality-the world as it is perceived by the leadership of the ASEAN nations. | Southeast Asia And The Enemy Beyond Asean Perceptions Of External Threats

GBP 130.00
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Military Strategy of Small States Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

Military Strategy of Small States Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

The book explores how small states adjust their military strategies in response to external shocks. Using primary sources from four Nordic countries (Denmark Finland Norway and Sweden) this volume explores how small states have adjusted their military strategies in response to external shocks of the 21st century. The 9/11 terrorist attacks the Russian interventions in Georgia and Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State have all forced the Nordic states to adopt new strategies. While the responses have not been uniform their differing relations to the EU and NATO have not prevented these countries from behaving similarly in military affairs. Limitations in military capacity has led all four countries to pursue strategies that include cooperation with more resourceful partners. It is necessary for them to cooperate with others to protect and promote their national interests. Moreover the Nordic cosmopolitan outlook expresses milieu-shaping ambitions that we generally would not expect small states to pursue against a potential great power aggressor. This book will be of much interest to students of military strategy defense studies security studies and international relations. | Military Strategy of Small States Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

GBP 39.99
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US Hard Power in the Arab World Resistance the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror

US Hard Power in the Arab World Resistance the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror

Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context and American Foreign policy in particular. However the exact nature of America’s presence in the Arab world and the scope and modes of its influence all appear to have reached a crossroads since the Arab uprisings. ‘US Hard Power in the Arab World’ traces the US’s power of persuasion in the Arab Middle East from the onset of the War on Terror in 2001 through to the Arab Spring. With a particular focus on Syria the book explores the limits of an American smart power amid the emergence of a growing indigenous soft power whose ire is directed not only at Assad’s regime but also at the violence perpetrated or enabled by the international community headed by the US. It is argued that the blurring of the two forms of soft and hard American power has tarnished the credibility of US policies geared to win hearts and minds in the Arab world. ‘US Hard Power in the Arab World’ narrates the contests between attraction and intimidation public diplomacy and military occupation elites and publics seduction and resistance. Drawing upon a multitude of primary sources including personal interviews with Syrian activists and opposition figures this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East Politics as well as those concerned with American Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring. | US Hard Power in the Arab World Resistance the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror

GBP 42.99
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Taking Education Really Seriously Four Years Hard Labour

Taking Education Really Seriously Four Years Hard Labour

Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education education education'. There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by Margaret Thatcher including issues of marketisation testing and performativity. Michael Fielding has called on the key policy thinkers in education to offer their opinions on what has happened in education over the first three to four years of the New Labour Government. Education policy is a controversial subject and with a General Election expected within the next few months this book will be read widely by people within education politicians and journalists and by others anxious to get to facts and avoid the spin. The subject matter and the presence of so many high profile educationalists make this an essential read. | Taking Education Really Seriously Four Years Hard Labour

GBP 175.00
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Supranational Governance at Stake The EU’s External Competences caught between Complexity and Fragmentation

Supranational Governance at Stake The EU’s External Competences caught between Complexity and Fragmentation

This book examines the varied competences of the European Union (EU) in relation to its capacity to externalize its policy preferences. Specifically it explores the continued resilience within the EU’s policy toolbox of supranational modes of governance beyond the State. The book first situates European experiences of supranationality in relations to the wide variety of regional and global modes of governance it comes into contact with when seeking to deal with an increasingly complex and fragmented international environment. Over the course of its subsequent sections the book analyses the resilience flexibility and adaptability of the EU’s supranational practices across a significant cross-section of policy fields for example Area Freedom of Justice Justice and Security; Socio-economic Governance; or Trade Policies. Overall these chapters unpack the impact of the EU’s internal institutional complexity on the EU's external capacity to export its preferences in an increasingly fragmented international environment. This in turn sees the book also question whether the EU has the institutional tools to guarantee and implement consistency between its internal and external policies. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics/studies and more broadly to International relations International/EU Law comparative regionalism international political economy security studies international law. | Supranational Governance at Stake The EU’s External Competences caught between Complexity and Fragmentation

GBP 36.99
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The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents Collaborative Therapeutic Care

The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents Collaborative Therapeutic Care

The field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group. There is a distinct lack of research evidence and treatment facilities and yet in order to produce mentally healthy undamaged adults of the future this must surely be on | The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents Collaborative Therapeutic Care

GBP 130.00
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Specifications for Building Conservation Volume 1: External Structure

Specifications for Building Conservation Volume 1: External Structure

In Specifications for Building Conservation the National Trust draws on a range of case studies and specifications to provide a much needed guide to specification writing for building conservation. Although traditional building accounts for approximately a quarter of all buildings in the UK the old skills and understanding required for their care and maintenance have been increasingly eroded over the last century. As the largest heritage charity in Europe the National Trust has a first class reputation for high standards of conservation and care and in this three volume set the Trust brings together a remarkable pool of expertise to guide conservation professionals and students through the process of successful specification writing. This first book focusses on the materials used for the external fabric detailing successful approaches employed by the National Trust at some of their most culturally significant sites. A range of studies have been carefully selected for their interest diversity and practicality; showcasing projects from stonework repairs on the magnificent Grade I listed Hardwick Hall to the re-thatching of the traditional cottages of the Holnicote Estate. Complete with a practical Conservation Management Plan checklist this book will enable practitioners to develop their skills allowing them to make informed decisions when working on a range of project types. This is the first practical guide to specification writing for building conservation and the advice provided by the National Trust experts will be of interest to any practitioners and students involved in building conservation both in the UK and beyond. Profits generated from the sale of this publication will go to the National Trust Building Apprenticeship Scheme. This provides placements for traditional skills at National Trust properties. | Specifications for Building Conservation Volume 1: External Structure

GBP 31.99
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Using Art Play Metaphor and Symbol with Hard-to-Reach Young Clients Reach Out To Me

Using Art Play Metaphor and Symbol with Hard-to-Reach Young Clients Reach Out To Me

This book demonstrates some of the unique ways in which therapists can help complex and vulnerable clients considered hard-to-reach using arts media and play. Using a wealth of case studies contributors describe their unique therapeutic attempts to reach clients who for various reasons seem unreachable. These moving therapeutic journeys are described in a phenomenological auto-ethnographic way by the therapists themselves as a series of snapshot glimpses into the therapy room. The therapists describe how combinations of art play metaphor and imagination have helped them navigate the complex pathways to reach their clients. Each chapter is fully supported by the contributing therapists' own selection of theoretical ideas and analysis. The book will help therapists consider innovate creative approaches in their work with clients who have been deemed too complex to work with in individual therapy emphasising the importance of play and arts resources in helping them achieve this. | Using Art Play Metaphor and Symbol with Hard-to-Reach Young Clients Reach Out To Me

GBP 24.99
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A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945 American Dreams Hard Realities

A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945 American Dreams Hard Realities

A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams Hard Realities offers a social political and cultural history of the United States since World War II. Unpacking a period of profound transformation unprecedented in the national experience this book takes a synthetic approach to the history of the 1940s to the present day. It examines how Americans descended from a mid-century apogee of boundless expectations to the unsettling premise that our contemporary historical moment is fraught with a sense of crisis and national failure. The book’s narrative explores the question of decline and more importantly how the history of this transformation can point the way toward a recovery of shared national values. Chris J. Magoc also gives extensive treatments to the following: Grassroots movements that have expanded the meaning of American democracy from the 1950s human rights struggle in the South to contemporary movements to confront systemic racism and the existential crisis of climate change. The resilience of American democracy in the face of antidemocratic forces. The impacts of a decades-long economic transformation. The consequences of America’s expanding global military footprint and national security state. Fracturing of a nation once held together by a post-war liberal consensus and broadly shared societal goals to an America facing an attack from within on empirical truth and democracy itself. This book will be of interest to students of modern U. S. history social history and American Studies and general readers interested in recent U. S. history. | A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945 American Dreams Hard Realities

GBP 34.99
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The Hard Sell An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry

The Hard Sell An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry

In this work John Bone provides a lively and engaging insight into the social world of direct selling organizations. He investigates these under-researched organizations via a detailed ethnography of two home improvement companies selling products such as fitted kitchens double glazing and conservatories as well as developing wider sociological debates on trust and interaction. These organizations tend to be loosely ordered and internally competitive collectives whose sole aim is to maximize short term profits through sales strategies that routinely employ the calculative exploitation of consumer norms and expectations. John Bone uses his findings to argue that amid the wave of increasing deregulation and liberalization that has supplanted the planned and regulated form of capitalism that predominated until the 1970s such conditions are now becoming prevalent in mainstream contemporary organizations threatening to unleash a latent disorder that underlies the rationality of 'modern' business. | The Hard Sell An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry

GBP 38.99
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Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Originally published in 2004. The essays in this engaging book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind drawing attention to the prison system 'boot camps' detention centres and specific penal policies such as the 'short sharp shock' parental penalty and 'three strikes and you're out'. Also examined are policing practices such as 'zero tolerance' 'saturation policing' and punitive laws in the areas of drug use sex offences and prostitution. It is demonstrated that in each of these cases the objectives of government resulted in the creation of new and unforeseen problems requiring further reform of the criminal justice system. This is a familiar tale characteristic of the modernist impulses of contemporary government based on the notion that crime can be identified managed and controlled through the application and administration of institutionalised polices and practices. The present culture of 'high crime' - despite a top-heavy apparatus of crime control - appears to indicate the very opposite. | Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

GBP 36.99
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China’s Greater Bay Area Agglomeration External Economies Governance and Urbanization

China’s Greater Bay Area Agglomeration External Economies Governance and Urbanization

China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) – previously referred to as the Pearl River Delta – is one of the world’s largest mega-city regions and China’s foremost technological economic social and cultural node. Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the GBA’s distinctive features to explain the region’s rise innovativeness and resilience. He reveals how the GBA works as differentiated and interdependent systems providing a window into the GBA and China while also providing the basis for a comparative approach to mega-cities and mega-regions. Key topics discussed in the book include: The early development of the GBA its mix of indigenous and exogenous investments and expertise and the forces that compelled its upgrading from process manufacturing The regional strengths in clusters transportation networks and regional innovation system The role of multi-level governance in balancing national directives municipal autonomy and regional complementarities Consequences of the GBA’s agglomeration for land allocation planning social structure and mobility communities sustainable development and resilience for the future Written in an accessible yet rigorous manner this textbook is ideal for a course on this important region for comparative courses on agglomeration and large-scale urban development and for people wanting a greater understanding of urban processes and China. | China’s Greater Bay Area Agglomeration External Economies Governance and Urbanization

GBP 34.99
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A Global Political Economy of Democratisation Beyond the Internal-External Divide

A Global Political Economy of Democratisation Beyond the Internal-External Divide

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’ with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet democracy has multiple meanings values and significances. The start of the twenty-first century has witnessed a massive revival of interest in the meaning and role of democracy not least as democracy understood in one highly particular sense has been increasingly recognised to be in crisis. This book presents these deliberations in a new light by moving beyond the concept of the sovereign state as the dominant framework of enquiry and by rejecting the primacy of the state and the categorical separation of the ‘domestic’ and the ‘international’. Instead Ayers elaborates an account of democratisation through the global political economy encompassing a trenchant critique of mainstream democracy promotion in theory and practice and opening-up possibilities for different histories of democratisation autonomous of the Western liberal and neoliberal project. This innovative work will prove useful to scholars and students in the fields of Politics Political Economy International Relations Development African Studies History Geography and Sociology. | A Global Political Economy of Democratisation Beyond the Internal-External Divide

GBP 39.99
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A Coach’s Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience Work Hard Be Kind

A Coach’s Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience Work Hard Be Kind

This book guides sport coaches parents and administrators in creating a caring and task-involving sport climate that helps athletes perform their best and have an enjoyable and meaningful sport experience. It introduces the concept of a caring and task-involving climate and provides a how to guide to creating this climate in sport. Firstly this guide introduces the caring and task-involving climate and summarizes research highlighting its many benefits. Secondly the five features of this climate are presented along with the reflective exercises for developing them within a team. Coaches will see strategies in action sample conversations and a variety of ways to implement the features of a caring and task-involving experience. By describing how it may be implemented and methods for overcoming possible challenges this book finally highlights how parents and sport administrators can support the creation and preservation of caring and task-involving climates. By helping teams develop caring climates that optimize athletes’ sport experience and performance this book is essential reading for coaches sport administrators parents and sport psychology practitioners. It will also be of great interest to those who have minimal training in sport psychology but who are involved in sport at many levels such as youth and high school. | A Coach’s Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience Work Hard Be Kind

GBP 24.99
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How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are key differentiators between the better and poorer performing businesses in most markets. Satisfaction drives loyalty and loyalty drives business performance. This new edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization and clarifies the business case for customer satisfaction. If you are committed to the future of your company the ability to measure what your customers think of you is essential - and so is this book!

GBP 175.00
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